Anniversary gift

Today is my second wedding anniversary. I m so lucky to have such a wonderful husband n best friend.

Thank u  for being my husband, my partner, my best friend n my lover.  Happy anniversary my dear !!!

Lalbagh glass house

Lalbagh glass house
Watercolor on paper

Lalbagh is a beautiful place to visit in Bangalore. Its full of greenery and flowers. The Glass House is in the necklace of Bangalore’s gardens, it is very famous for its artistic structure. 

Lily pond

Lily pond at venkatapura art gallery,
Plein air painting,
water color on paper

Last  sunday I went for plein air painting with my friends. I always find this subject difficult to paint. But one of my friend suggested to try this without thinking so much. I tried this and quite happy that I tried.

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Castle

Castle

12x16

Acrylic on canvas

My recent artwork , acrylic on canvas. I have started using canvas for acrylic painting, and found little easy as compared to paper surface as paints dries little slower in canvas than paper surface.

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Babughat Kolkata

Watercolor on paper

First time I tried in poster color. It's  not same as watercolor. But one thing I found good is no need to much worry about the high lights. 

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Dream to fly !

Watercolor on paper

This painting I use self photo, I didn't try to make look exactly like me, but somehow it's looks little like me. I will use this as ID image for all my social network sites :-) 

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Like a Butterfly

Like a Butterfly

Watercolor on paper

Central College Bangalore

Watercolor on paper

Today I went with my friends to Central college of Bangalore for outdoor painting. This is a beautiful place with lots of old building. And the weather was so nice, we all enjoyed.

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Robin williams as patch adam

Hunter Patch Adams: What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

Inspired from movie "Patch Adams"

Alleppy backwater paintings

watercolor on paper

I had been to Alleppy (back water) last week, its a beautiful place. I did few live sketches there and took lot of photos. The above painting is done one from the reference photo.  Below are the live watercolor sketches I did there.

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

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Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager

Study of Bird painting

Acrylic painting on paper

Amphitheater @ Nritya Gram

Watercolor on paper

Pencil Jam art group organized a trip to Nrityagram on the outskirts of Bangalore. A lovely place. India's first modern Grurukul (residential school) for Indian clasical dance, its a in the form of a dance village.


I tried outdoor painting there, but it didn't come out good, I m still not comfortable in outdoor. I took some photo and this painting I did from one photo.


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Autumn Song

"Autumn Song "  [SOLD]

Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
   The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves,
   The wild wind blows in a cloud.

Hark to a voice that is calling
   To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone,
   And why should I stay behind?

~ Sarojini Naidu

Hanging flower

Title : Hanging flower

Medium : Watercolor on paper

Size : 8x7"

I visited Munnar last year. I found this beauty in a flower garden of Munnar. 

Hope is the thing with feathers

Water color on paper

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops—at all

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest Sea
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

~ Emily Dickinson

Food counter in Wanderla

Watercolor on paper

I had been to a water amusement park few months back and I had great fun. I managed to take few photos for painting reference. This painting is done from one of those photos. 

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All in one rhythm - 2014 FIFA World cup

Messi

Acrylic on paper

House painting

Water color on paper

This is painting is of one of my friends beautiful house. He asked me for a painting of it and I  agreed to paint it. And most important he liked it.

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Dauntless white horse

Title : Dauntless white horse

Meduim : Watercolor on paper

Size: 11x7 inches

Charlie Chaplin

"A day without laughter, a day wasted"

Charlie Chaplin

Acrylic on paper

A4 Size

The turban man

The turban man

Watercolor on paper

A3 size

I tried to paint this turban man in loose style and I enjoyed it. 

Reference photo by my friend Satyabrata Mohapatra.

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Plein air painting in Lalbagh

Watercolor on bockingord paper

11x14 inches

Last Sunday early morning I went to Lal bagh botanical garden with my husband and my sister. We usually go there in weekends. They do morning walking/jogging, I do sketching/painting. Every time I was disappointed. I was so confused what to do what not to do. This time after searching for some time I found this small bridge with bambo trees.  I sat there and did one small sketch, n then did this painting. And yes water was not there, I included in my painting  :-) For the first time I like the outdoor painting output and the experience also. 

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Invocation of divinity

Invocation of divinity

Watercolor on bockingford paper

11x15 inches

Reference photo by Satyabrata Mohapatra

Here is the color version of temple bells. Yes I could able to get the illusion of brass in water color :) :) :) I am going to share what colors I used to get it , brunt sienna, yellow orche, french ultramaraine and little bit of scarlet red. I applied various layers of wet in wet and then few brush strokes in dry. In this I added red ribbon to get more divine feeling. Hope u like it.

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Temple Bells

Pencil on paper

Temple bells. Done form a photo reference by my friend. Actually I was willing to do a painting. But not sure how to get that brass color. So I did this sketch to get the correct values. But still I will learn how to get that brass color in watercolor and then I will attempt to do this in color.

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The red gate

The red gate

Watercolor on paper

A3 size

Here is my latest landscape painting did on last saturday. 

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Elsa the snow queen

Elsa the snow queen

inspired from Movie Frozen

Acrylic on paper

Katy Perry

Graphite Pencil and colored pencil on canson paper

A4 size 

"Pa & Son" and some sketches

Acrylic on paper

This is inspired from movie "Forest Gump"

One of my favorite quote from the movie is :

" Life's a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get"

Below are my en plain air sketches I did on last Sunday.

 Pencil on paper

water color on handmade paper

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Malala the brave girl

Watercolor on paper

" I said to my self,

Malala you must be brave,

you must not be afraid of anyone,

You are only trying to get education.

You are not committing crime"

~ Malala

Malala the bravest girl. I am reading the book "I am Malal" and I came to know more about her. She is such a brave and inspiring girl.

Here is the snap shot of the painting with my painting tools :-)

Audrey Hepburn

Pencil sketch on paper

"Happy girls are the prettiest"
                                     ~ Audrey Hepburn

Phenomenal Woman

Title : Phenomenal Woman

Medium : Watercolor on paper

Size : 14x11 inches

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
      ~ Maya Angelou

This painting is inspired from poem "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou. I love her poems, they represents the hope, pride and confident of a woman.

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Landscape: 1

Watercolor on paper

A4 Size paper

I have been always saying I am very bad in landscape painting but not working on that. So finally I started working on this seriously now. may be  :-). Before doing this painting I saw few online demos, read some books, about various techniques. Then I attempted this one. Actually I did few more paintings, which I didn't like n not fell like sharing. 

I saw this house some time back while I was walking to my house. Lots of things around there. Its always confused what to include and what not to. This time I took some time to simplifying the painting. Tried not to include all the details. And I'm little happy with the result.

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Smera

Smera

Pencil on paper

A size

She is my niece, my brothers daughter. Did from a photo reference. See the eyes, are not they so innocent! I loved these eyes, the expression, so pure!  I know its always very challenging to do small kids portrait, but I tried to do my best. Hope my brother will be happy when he see this. 

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Sisters chit chat

This one is the birthday gift to my sister. I did from a reference photo of me and my sister. She liked it very much :-)
I had dark brown colored papers. I did one painting using acrylic paint but it did not come out that good. I got recently poster color, gifted by one of my friend. So thought of trying some thing different using this poster color , ink and colored paper. And this is it. This is not that great but I liked it :-)

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Roger Federer

Roger Federer

Pencil and watercolor on paper

A3 size

He is one of my Favorite sports person. I wish him all the best for 2014 Australian open. 

This one I took around 6 to7 hrs to complete it. Even though I feel its not completed and I wanted to work more on shade but I could not wait to upload it. May be I will work on shades later if I want. 

Hope u like it.

  

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa
Medium : Watercolor on paper
Size : A3

"Every time you SMILE at someone,
it is an action of LOVE, 
a gift to that person,
a beautiful thing"
~ Mother Teresa

A little model

Title: A little model

Medium : Pencil and charcoal on paper

Size : A4

I saw this cute little girl in a park last year and she was posing nicely for photo. I like her innocent face and her dress. But what I like most the way she was posing for photographs. I also took one photo of her and was thought of painting or sketching one day.

I did this using charcoal stick and pencil. Though I am not much comfortable with charcoal sticks, but I like its outcome and started liking it. I like the original sketch than this digital photo.

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Lalbagh

Water color on paper

Lalbagh botanical garden is a beautiful place to visit in Bangalore. I visited many time and I took photo every time I go there. This one I done from a photo reference taken by me.

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Happy new Year!

Water color on paper

Wish u and your family a very joyful, healthy, successful n happy new Year :-)